Tape guide and fastener.



No. 727.551. PATENTED MAY 5, 1903. I R. A. MOORE, JR. TAfPE GUIDE" ANDFASTENER.

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Nirnn STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL A. MOORE, JR, OF KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO MAURICESCHEUER AND CHARLES SCHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

TAPE GUIDE AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 727,551, dated May 5,1903.

Application filed February 17, 1903. Serial No. 143,796- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may. concern:

Be it known that I, ROSWELL A. MOORE, J r., a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Kensington, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TapeGuides and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved tape guide and fastener forsupporting various devices from a loop around the wearers body; and theobjects of my improvement are simplicity and economy in construction andconvenience and efliciency in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my guideand fastener, together with a tape arranged in loop form, with its endportions threaded through the said guides and provided with an ordinaryform of hose-supporters. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the two membersof my guide and fastener slightly separated from each other. Fig. 3 is alike view of the same with the two members brought toward each otherready for engaging the fastening devices to connect the said memberstogether. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the right-hand member of Figs. 2 and3. Fig. 5 is a front view of a portion of one member in a modified form.

A designates a tape, strap, or belt of any suitable material, but whichfor convenience of description I will hereinafter refer to as a 5 5 7) Band C designate the two members of my guide and fastener, and Ddesignates an ordinary form of hose-supporters.

The member B is essentially the stud member of my guide and fastener andis formed of a plate 5, a headed stud 6, and a wire frame having threeeyes 7 8 8, the ends of the Wire being secured within a rolled edge 9 ofthe plate 5. The eye 7 extends lengthwise with the rolled edge of theplate 5, and the other two eyes 8 8 extend away from the said edge andpreferably on outwardly-converging lines. These eyes are formed from asingle piece of wire. Beginning at the upper end of the plate 5, in Fig.2, the wire is bent at an angle to the rolled edge of the said plate,then doubled upon itself to form the outer end of the upper eye 8, thenbent again an offset 10 near the junction of the upper eye 8 with theupper end of the eye '7, then bent to form a like offset 10 at the lowerend of the eye 7, and then outwardly and backwardly, so as to againdouble thewire upon itself to form the lower one of the eyes 8 8, andthen bending it to bring the end of the wire up into the rolled edge 9.The metal plate 5 is provided with an ear 11 and the headed stud 6,before referred to, the said car, as shown, having a peculiar slottherein, which may be described as a T-shaped slot with the uprightcurved toward the wire frame in a .zigzag curve.

The member C has the same wire frame, with eyes 7 8 8, as in the memberB the metal plate 5 being also the same only it has no headed stud. Theslot in the member B is for hooking the guide to a headed stud on thecorset of the wearer, while the slot' in the member C is for engagingthe headed stud 6 of the member B to connect the said two members, asshown in Fig. 1. It may, however, be used, if desired, to hook upon theheaded stud of the corset, in which case the two members B and C wouldbe connected by hooking them both upon the corset-stud.

The slots in the ears comprise a retainingpocket 12, extendinglongitudinally in the line of a pull that would tend to separate the twomembers B C, and an entering-slot 13 of a curved zigzag form, thatextends transversely to the said retaining-pocket and inclinesbackwardly from its junction with the said retaining-slot to the edge ofthe plate. I prefer to make this slot with the retainingpocket 12extending in both directions from its junction with the entering slot1-3, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, because when so made there is lessliability of accidental unfastening; otherwise the retainingpocket 12 ofFig. 5 has the same mode of action. In order to connect the two membersB and C, the member C is brought into position in front of the member Band the edge of the metal plate 5 of the member C placed against thebody of the stud under its head, as shown in Fig. 3. Then the member 0is pushed downwardly and away from the member B, and the stud willreadily draw into the retaining-pocket 12 as the member 0 movesobliquely down into place, as shown in Fig. 1.

I have shown the tape as having its end portions carry an ordinary formof hose-supporter; but it is evident that the particular article,garment, or appendage carried by these ends is wholly immaterial. Thetape, as shown in Fig. 1, is threaded through the guide by first passingone end through the upper eye of the left-hand member from the rear,then through the longer eye 7 from the front, then turning the tape onitself and through the lower eye from the rear and then downwardly towhatever the tape may support, then passing the other end of the tapethrough the upper eye of the other member, and then through the longereye from the rear and down through the lower eye, as in the left-handmember.

By my improvement the guides are slceletonized, so as to be very light.They are also flexible through the rolled edge that forms a jointbetween the metal plate and the wire frame, while the wire frame itselfis resilient, thereby making the guides more comfortable to the wearer..The eyes being formed of wire have a good smooth surface, so that thetape more readily slides therethrough, and the guides adjust themselvesto the various positions of the wearer. The particular form of slotinthe fastening-ears enables the guides to direct the stud into itsretaining-pocket.

I claim as my invention 1. A guide and fastener, consisting of twomembers, each member comprising the fastening-plate and the wire framewith its three eyes toreceive the tape, substantially as described.

2. A guide and fastener consisting of two members, each membercomprising the fastening-plate and the wire frame with the wire twicedoubled upon itself to form the eyes 8, 8, with an intermediate portionand ends of the wire connected with the said plate and forming the eye7, substantially as described.

3. A guide and fastener consisting of two members, each membercomprising the fastening-plate and the wire frame with three eyesconnected to the said plate, and having the wire cross itself on frontand rear sides at the junction of the said three eyes.

4. A guide and fastener consisting of two members, each membercomprising the fastening-plate and wire frame having the three eyes,with the member of the middle eye on that side which is farthest fromthe said plate, offset at each end thereof, substantially as described.

5. In a guide and fastener, the combination of a headed stud withanother member having a plate provided with an elongatedretaining-pocketextendinglongitudinallyin theline of the pull on theparts, and having an entering-slot extending from the saidretainingpocket transversely backward and outward in a curved zigzagcourse to the edge of the said plate. 7,

6. In a guide and faste er, the combination of a headed stud with iothermember having a plate provided with a T-shaped slot, the top of the Tforming a retaining-pocket that extends longitudinally in the line ofthe pull on the parts, and the upright of the T forming an entering-slotextending backwardly from the middle portion of the retaining-pocket ina curved zigzag course to the edge of the said plate.

7. In a guide and fastener, a member thereof consisting of thefastening-plate and the Wire frame with its three eyes to receive thetape, substantially as described.

R. A. MOORE, JR.

Witnesses:

JAMES SHEPARD, SHEFFIELD I-I. CLARKE.

